European wild boar
As cloven-hoofed animals, wild boars are a special case: they are not ruminants, but omnivores that do not disdain meat such as mice, young hares, clutches, carrion, etc. They build large ground nests from twigs, which are used for sleeping and to protect the newborn young from enemies - or from wet and cold. Wild boars have a large number of young and live in packs of female "bachs" with their "Frischlingen" and "Überläufern", the one-year-olds. As pronounced contact animals, they like to rest body to body. The male "tuskers" live as loners and only visit the packs to mate in late autumn. They fight fiercely for rank, which can already be observed as a fight and flight game in young boars.
- Wild boars love to wallow and paint. They roll around in the mud to cool off and protect themselves from parasites. When painting, they rub themselves extensively on trees with the roughest possible bark.
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Sus scrofa
AGE
- up to 15 years
FOOD
- Crops
- Tree fruits
- Invertebrates
FINE
- Wolf
- Brown bear
WEIGHT
- up to 150 kg
110 - 180 cm
OTHER MAMMALS
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